Moments of Memory: 2024 MPAC Bell Museum Exhibit

MPAC's second annual exhibit will be held from January 27 to May 26, 2024, at the Bell Museum, the State's official natural history museum on the University of Minnesota's Saint Paul campus. The UMN's natural history museum is well known to plein air painters for its famous collection of dioramas painted by Francis Lee Jaques. The exhibit will last several months and incorporate audience engagement activities, including artist-guided tours, a Quick Paint event, Berton Box painting activities, and a public reception.

​Painters who have exhibited in Plein Air Grand Marais, Winter Plein Air Retreat, Red Wing Plein Air, or Prairie Lakes Plein Air are eligible to apply to display up to four (4) paintings created in the qualifying events. 

January 27 – May 26, 2024

Minnesota Plein Air Collective

MPAC is a collaboration of Outdoor Painters of Minnesota, Red Wing Arts, and Art of the Lakes Association to mount an annual exhibit in different Minnesota venues to showcase paintings created in the organizations' annual plein air events in Grand Marais, Red Wing, and Battle Lake. MPAC seeks to raise awareness of our plein air events and appreciation of our State's dedicated plein air painters through their depiction of landscapes in the North Shore, Driftless Area, and Prairie Lakes regions.